“Five bittersweet school-age romance vignettes: fleeting love, rainy-day crushes, idealized plans, fairytale playboys, and first-love candy.”
Chouchou Kurabe
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Five bittersweet school-age romance vignettes: fleeting love, rainy-day crushes, idealized plans, fairytale playboys, and first-love candy.
Story 1: Poor Chikako, who’s always changing schools, has fallen in love with her classmate Abe. In three days, Chikako will have to face changing schools again, but what about her love for Abe… Story 2 - Weather Forecast, Sunny: Hikaru loves rainy days because that’s when she gets walk to school with Takehiko, but the end of the rainy season heralds changes more disturbing to Hikaru than just the weather. Story 3 - The Wind Plan: Kurinama Sho comes up with the perfect plan to get close to his ideal girl, Student Council President Sakatsumu Nakano. The plan works, but his idol is not quite the girl he thinks she is… Story 4 - The Kingdom of Fairytales: He’s a prince–well, more like a playboy. She’s his destined lover–along with the 58 other girls he’s used that line on. Can this unlikely pair make their fairytale end happily ever after? Story 5 - Candy Romance: A bittersweet story of the joy and pain of first love. (Source: The Evil Empire)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 5 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 40m approx
- Published Jan 2001 – Jan 2002
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2753 catalog